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  • GOP in wilderness because leaders left Reagan legacy behind years ago

    05/08/2009 10:30:50 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 33 replies · 1,145+ views
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 2009-05-06 | Mark Tapscott
    Excuse me, Jeb Bush, but your daddy and brother already helped push the Republican Party beyond “the good old days” of its Reagan legacy, and we all see how well that’s been working for the GOP since 2006, don’t we. And excuse me, Gen. Colin Powell, but which election did you win because “Americans are looking for more government in their lives, not less …”? Forgive me if I seem a bit cranky here, but, being a card-carrying Reaganaut since 1964, it’s hard not to be whenever the national media lectures the GOP on how to regain voters’ trust. Inevitably,...
  • FILM PRESIDENTS THROUGH THE AGES

    05/01/2002 5:25:43 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 11 replies · 478+ views
    Zap2it.com ^ | October 2000 | Marla Hart
    A president gets embroiled in a national scandal when sexual hi-jinx from the past threaten to sabotage his best-laid plans. Only in The Contender, Jeff Bridges’ president is like a Boy Scout and Joan Allen, his choice for V.P., is the politician in trouble. Bridges makes a handsome commander-in-chief. Maybe too handsome. On celluloid, the leader of the free world is usually the guy who lacks sex appeal and charisma. Hollywood likes its presidents craggy-faced and tough (Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact), with bonus points for a receding hairline (Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks)....